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F. Zogbaum</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4058275/</link><description>&amp;quot;The Old Navy&amp;quot;.  Image of oil painting by R. F. Zogbaum which was based on the original photograph taken in 1888 aboard the USS Mohican. From the USNA museum.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:29:19 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4058275/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4058275&amp;size=128&amp;m=1323037759.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4058275&amp;size=128&amp;m=1323037759.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4058275&amp;size=128&amp;m=1323037759.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4058275&amp;size=128&amp;m=1323037759.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4058275&amp;size=128&amp;m=1323037759.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>&amp;quot;The Old Navy&amp;quot; by R. F. Zogbaum</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4058275/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Civil War Sailor</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9740353/</link><description>An unidentified U.S. Navy Sailor poses for the cameria in this photograph from the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War images at the Library of Congress.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:57:24 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9740353/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9740353&amp;size=128&amp;m=1321563444.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9740353&amp;size=128&amp;m=1321563444.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9740353&amp;size=128&amp;m=1321563444.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9740353&amp;size=128&amp;m=1321563444.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9740353&amp;size=128&amp;m=1321563444.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Civil War Sailor</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9740353/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>From Our Archive Jan 2008</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4775199/</link><description>&amp;#39;It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.&amp;quot;   (Eric Hoffer, 1902-83)//
The year is believed to be 1967, but even that is uncertain.  The location could best be determined by the stationing of the ships in the background at that time. The USS Preble, the USS Halsey, The USS King, and the USS Macdonough..  The who and why are simply unknown and left to the viewer to hear the noise.
Featured in the January 2008 issue of Proceedings magazine.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:44:35 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4775199/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4775199&amp;size=128&amp;m=1314809075.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4775199&amp;size=128&amp;m=1314809075.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4775199&amp;size=128&amp;m=1314809075.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4775199&amp;size=128&amp;m=1314809075.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4775199&amp;size=128&amp;m=1314809075.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>From Our Archive Jan 2008</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4775199/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Bridge scene , USS Newark</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7984563/</link><description>&amp;#39;Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.&amp;#39; (Peter Drucker, 1909-2005).//  The bridge of the USS Newark, most likely between 1891-93, presents a very workmanlike and professional scene.  With the exception of the single Bluejacket at left, all other eyes are focused on the task at hand.  No doubt the commanding officer - perhaps Captain Silas Casey Jr. - standing at right, would tolerated nothing less.
Featured in April 2009 Proceedings magazine.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:34:09 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7984563/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7984563&amp;size=128&amp;m=1309574049.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7984563&amp;size=128&amp;m=1309574049.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7984563&amp;size=128&amp;m=1309574049.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7984563&amp;size=128&amp;m=1309574049.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7984563&amp;size=128&amp;m=1309574049.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Bridge scene , USS Newark</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7984563/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Dads Hat</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9556451/</link><description>110310-N-DX615-069
PEARL HARBOR (March 10, 2011) The son of Chief Information Systems Technician Jess Eisele wears his father&amp;Otilde;s cover during a celebration for the arrival for the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) at Pearl Harbor for a port visit. Abraham Lincoln is returning to homeport in Everett, Wash., after a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alan Gragg/Released)</description><dc:creator>MC2 Alan Gragg</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:30:41 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9556451/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556451&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471441.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556451&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471441.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556451&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471441.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556451&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471441.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556451&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471441.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Dads Hat</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9556451/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Father and Daughter</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9556447/</link><description>100701-N-5476H-001 
PEARL HARBOR (July 1, 2010) The daughter of Lt. Cmdr. Terry Fellows pins a new collar device on her father&amp;Otilde;s uniform during a promotion ceremony at Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Hight/Released)</description><dc:creator>MC2 Michael Hight</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:27:21 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9556447/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556447&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471241.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556447&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471241.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556447&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471241.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556447&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471241.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9556447&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307471241.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Father and Daughter</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9556447/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>A Sailor, his Flag, and the Sea</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/460494/</link><description>Lone sailor looks aft from a launch circa 1942-1945.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:54:15 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/460494/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460494&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307044455.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460494&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307044455.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460494&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307044455.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460494&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307044455.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460494&amp;size=128&amp;m=1307044455.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>A Sailor, his Flag, and the Sea</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/460494/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>TIRED</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/359349/</link><description>U.S. Navy photograph by Dad Dodd, PHC, USN</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:48:33 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/359349/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:359349&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306950513.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:359349&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306950513.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:359349&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306950513.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:359349&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306950513.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:359349&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306950513.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>TIRED</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/359349/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Waiting for Dad</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9543783/</link><description>090706-N-6538W-214
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (July 6, 2009) The daughter of Chief Aviation Structural Mechanic Kevin Sheppard from Lemoore, Calif. waits at the gate outside the pier to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) for her father. John C. Stennis pulled into San Diego, Calif. to offload Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 prior to heading back to homeport in Bremerton, Wash. John C. Stennis is returning from a scheduled six-month deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Walter M. Wayman/ Released)</description><dc:creator>MC3 Walter M. Wayman</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 09:18:35 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9543783/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543783&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858715.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543783&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858715.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543783&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858715.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543783&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858715.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543783&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858715.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Waiting for Dad</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9543783/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Welcome Home Daddy</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9543782/</link><description>110405-N-DD445-017
MAYPORT, Fla. (April 5, 2011) A little girl waits for her dad as the guided-missile frigate USS Doyle (FFG 39) returns to homeport after a six-month deployment to the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. While deployed Doyle conducted counter-narcoterrorism missions and made port visits to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sunday Williams/Released)</description><dc:creator>MC2 Sunday Williams</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 09:16:09 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9543782/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543782&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858569.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543782&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858569.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543782&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858569.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543782&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858569.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9543782&amp;size=128&amp;m=1306858569.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Welcome Home Daddy</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9543782/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Memorial Day in Afghanistan</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9516596/</link><description>090525-N-8547M-090
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan (MAY 25, 2009) Master-at-Arms 1st Class Alex Roelofs, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5, raises the national Ensign to half mast on Memorial Day. NMCB-5 is deployed to Afghanistan supporting the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and is a Naval Expeditionary Combat Command warfighting support element providing host nation construction support and security. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W. Mullen III/Released)</description><dc:creator>Master-at-Arms 1st class ALEX RO</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 11:10:28 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9516596/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516596&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705428.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516596&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705428.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516596&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705428.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516596&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705428.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516596&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705428.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Memorial Day in Afghanistan</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9516596/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Memorial Day at the Navy Memorial</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9516595/</link><description>100531-N-0506A-102
WASHINGTON (May 31, 2010) A sailor assigned to the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard holds the national ensign beside the Lone Sailor statue during a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the U.S. Navy Memorial. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt/Released)</description><dc:creator>MC2 Jesse Awalt</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 11:07:59 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9516595/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516595&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705279.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516595&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705279.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516595&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705279.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516595&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705279.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:9516595&amp;size=128&amp;m=1304705279.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Memorial Day at the Navy Memorial</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/9516595/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Female Yeomen 1918</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2998754/</link><description>Photo shows female yeomen in full dress uniform being inspected by Rear Admiral Victor Blue on the Washington Monument grounds, Washington, D.C., 1918.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:45:27 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2998754/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2998754&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301629527.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2998754&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301629527.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2998754&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301629527.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2998754&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301629527.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2998754&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301629527.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Female Yeomen 1918</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2998754/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Sailor on pier circa 1940s</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7441686/</link><description>&amp;#39;It is always fair sailing when you escape evil.&amp;#39; (Sophocles, 497-406 B.C.)// 
An unknown sailor ponders his fog-shrouded ship as she is prepared for the next voyage.
Featured in January 2009 Proceedings magazine.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:31:32 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7441686/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7441686&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301495492.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7441686&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301495492.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7441686&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301495492.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7441686&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301495492.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7441686&amp;size=128&amp;m=1301495492.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Sailor on pier circa 1940s</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7441686/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Photographers mate-diver</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2650574/</link><description>A photographer&amp;#39;s mate/diver is harnessed to the hull of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624) as he videotapes Navy SEAL team members during lock-out procedures off the coast of Puerto Rico, September, 1991.  Photo taken by PHC(DV) Mark Reinhard.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:52:59 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2650574/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2650574&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297986779.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2650574&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297986779.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2650574&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297986779.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2650574&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297986779.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2650574&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297986779.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Photographers mate-diver</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2650574/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Golden Thirteen</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/327263/</link><description>Navy commissioned its first African American line officers at the Great Lakes, Illinois, Naval Training Station. The group included 12 ensigns and a warrant officer and were collectively known as the Golden Thirteen.  For more on this group, see The Golde</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:30:14 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/327263/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:327263&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297668614.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:327263&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297668614.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:327263&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297668614.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:327263&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297668614.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:327263&amp;size=128&amp;m=1297668614.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Golden Thirteen</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/327263/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Sailor on seawall</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/3255517/</link><description>Circa 1967 photograph of lone sailor with DLG&amp;#39;s in the background.  Photo taken by Robert D. Moeser.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:05:34 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/3255517/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3255517&amp;size=128&amp;m=1291928734.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3255517&amp;size=128&amp;m=1291928734.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3255517&amp;size=128&amp;m=1291928734.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3255517&amp;size=128&amp;m=1291928734.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3255517&amp;size=128&amp;m=1291928734.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Sailor on seawall</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/3255517/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Thanksgiving at Sea, 1944</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/653287/</link><description>Admiral William F. &amp;quot;Bull&amp;quot; Halsey, JR. eating Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of the USS New Jersey, November 30, 1944.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:22:23 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/653287/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:653287&amp;size=128&amp;m=1290097343.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:653287&amp;size=128&amp;m=1290097343.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:653287&amp;size=128&amp;m=1290097343.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:653287&amp;size=128&amp;m=1290097343.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:653287&amp;size=128&amp;m=1290097343.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Thanksgiving at Sea, 1944</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/653287/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Lowering the National Ensign</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7783650/</link><description>080822-N-9689V-001
CHUUK STATE, Federated States of Micronesia (Aug. 22, 2008) A Sailor assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) lowers the national ensign during evening colors at sunset, signaling the end of the Mercy&amp;#39;s first day in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Mercy will operate in FSM to perform humanitarian civic assistance missions in an effort to build the relationship between FSM and the United States during Pacific Partnership 2008. Pacific Partnership is a four-month humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia intended to build collaborative relationships by providing engineering, civic, medical and dental assistance to the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Valcarcel/Released)</description><dc:creator>MC3 Joshua Valcarcel</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:45:41 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7783650/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7783650&amp;size=128&amp;m=1289227541.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7783650&amp;size=128&amp;m=1289227541.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7783650&amp;size=128&amp;m=1289227541.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7783650&amp;size=128&amp;m=1289227541.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7783650&amp;size=128&amp;m=1289227541.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Lowering the National Ensign</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7783650/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Field Medicine - Vietnam</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/878188/</link><description>An injection of intravenous fluid is given by Hospitalman Leslie G. Osterman to a Marine injured by shrapnel in Vietnam.  USN photograph taken by PH3 T.B. Davis,</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:01:54 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/878188/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:878188&amp;size=128&amp;m=1285365714.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:878188&amp;size=128&amp;m=1285365714.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:878188&amp;size=128&amp;m=1285365714.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:878188&amp;size=128&amp;m=1285365714.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:878188&amp;size=128&amp;m=1285365714.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Field Medicine - Vietnam</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/878188/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Submarine Control Room, WWII</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/460328/</link><description>Commanding Officer sights through a periscope in his submarine's control room, 1943.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:02:28 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/460328/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460328&amp;size=128&amp;m=1284130948.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460328&amp;size=128&amp;m=1284130948.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460328&amp;size=128&amp;m=1284130948.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460328&amp;size=128&amp;m=1284130948.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:460328&amp;size=128&amp;m=1284130948.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Submarine Control Room, WWII</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/460328/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Navy Chaplain Joseph O&amp;#39;Callahan</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/3757498/</link><description>U.S. Navy Chaplain, LCDR Joseph O&amp;#39;Callahan is shown administering last rites to an injured crewman aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13) after she was struck by two armor-piercing bombs from a Japanese dive bomber on March 19, 1945.  Chaplain O&amp;#39;Callahan received the medal of honor for his heroic actions onboard.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:45:50 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/3757498/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3757498&amp;size=128&amp;m=1281019550.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3757498&amp;size=128&amp;m=1281019550.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3757498&amp;size=128&amp;m=1281019550.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3757498&amp;size=128&amp;m=1281019550.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:3757498&amp;size=128&amp;m=1281019550.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Navy Chaplain Joseph O&amp;#39;Callahan</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/3757498/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Silhouette of The Big Three.png</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4186126/</link><description>&amp;#39;No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main...&amp;#39; (John Donne, 1572-1631)//
This idyllic scene, taken some time before November 1935, off Diamond Head, Hawaii, portends little of what the fates have in store for either the Sailors of the ships in the distance.  There is little to tell the aircraft carriers apart.  They are the sisters Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3).
Featured in the May 2008 issue of Proceedings magazine.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:22:23 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4186126/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4186126&amp;size=128&amp;m=1278775343.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4186126&amp;size=128&amp;m=1278775343.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4186126&amp;size=128&amp;m=1278775343.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4186126&amp;size=128&amp;m=1278775343.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4186126&amp;size=128&amp;m=1278775343.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Silhouette of The Big Three.png</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4186126/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>21020 On deck at sunset</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7826938/</link><description>041023-N-4166B-041
Pacific Ocean (Oct. 23, 2004) - Pilots aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), assemble on the bow of the ship as the sunsets on the western Pacific Ocean. The Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are currently deployed to the Western Pacific Ocean. Carrier Strike Group Nine (CSG-9) is the first to be used in the Surge Role in support of the Chief of Naval Operations Fleet Response Plan (FRP). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer&amp;#39;s Mate Airman Jordon R. Beesley (RELEASED)</description><dc:creator>U.S Navy Jordon R. Beesley</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:21:32 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7826938/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826938&amp;size=128&amp;m=1276705292.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826938&amp;size=128&amp;m=1276705292.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826938&amp;size=128&amp;m=1276705292.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826938&amp;size=128&amp;m=1276705292.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826938&amp;size=128&amp;m=1276705292.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>21020 On deck at sunset</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7826938/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>USS Pennsylvania (BB-39) Crew</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7826829/</link><description>&amp;#39;When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.&amp;#39; (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)//
Sailors begin work to spread the awning on the forecastle of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-39).  At the time, in late 1937, she was the Combined Fleet flagship.
Featured in March 2009 Proceedings magazine.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:49:29 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7826829/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826829&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274924969.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826829&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274924969.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826829&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274924969.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826829&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274924969.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:7826829&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274924969.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>USS Pennsylvania (BB-39) Crew</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/7826829/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>First Salute</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/8960556/</link><description>080829-N-8848T-907
NEWPORT, R.I. (Aug. 29, 2008) Ensign Brandon Boyles, from Charleston, S. C., receives a first salute from his Drill Instructor Gunnery Sgt. Sandra Center. Boyles was one of more than 40 officer candidates to graduate from Officer Candidate School (OCS). Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. Mark E. Ferguson III, was the reviewing officer and keynote speaker at the ceremony. He was also a speaker and participant at a ribbon cutting rededication ceremony for the main training facility of OCS, Callaghan Hall. The $9.2 million two-year renovation project of the 30-year-old building will now be a state-of-the-art facility for training present and future Navy officers. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom/Released)</description><dc:creator>Scott A. Thornbloom</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:12:01 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/8960556/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:8960556&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274130721.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:8960556&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274130721.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:8960556&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274130721.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:8960556&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274130721.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:8960556&amp;size=128&amp;m=1274130721.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>First Salute</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/8960556/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>The Sacred Twenty of the Navy Nurse Corps</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4496470/</link><description>ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S. NAVY NURSE CORPS. 
Originally established by an Act of Congress on May 13, 1908, the first contingent of 20 nurses reported in October of that year for duty at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Washington, DC.  This is a photograph of the original group of Navy Nurses.  Front row:  Mary R. Du Bose, Adah M. Pendleton, Elizabeth M. Hewitt, Della V. Knight, J. Beatrice Bowman, Lenah S. Higbee, Esther V. Hasson (First Superintendent of Nurses), Martha E. Pringle, Elizabeth J. Wells, Sara B. Myer, and Clare L. De Ceu.  Back Row:  Elizabeth Leonhardt, Estelle Hine, Ethel R. Parsons, Florence T. Milburn, Boniface T. Small, Victoria White, Isabel Rose Ray, Margaret D. Murray and Sara M. Cox.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 06:05:06 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4496470/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4496470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1273755906.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4496470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1273755906.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4496470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1273755906.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4496470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1273755906.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:4496470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1273755906.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>The Sacred Twenty of the Navy Nurse Corps</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/4496470/</pictopia:buylink><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Parade in SF May 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434415/</link><description>Crewmen of the USS Maine (BB-10) parade 
through the city during their visit; May, 
1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:47:32 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434415/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434415&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269460052.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434415&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269460052.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434415&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269460052.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434415&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269460052.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434415&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269460052.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Parade in SF May 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434415/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, USS Maine, BB-10, crewmen, parade</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Bear cub from Washington State 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434423/</link><description>This bear cub was one of sixteen acquired 
from Seattle, Washington that were added 
to the &amp;quot;Great White Fleet&amp;#39;s&amp;quot; extensive 
menagerie. There were already numerous 
pigs, monkeys, cats, dogs, and exotic 
birds in the fleet, and they would soon be 
supplemented with kangaroos and other 
strange animals from the other side of the 
earth; 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:19:16 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434423/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434423&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269458356.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434423&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269458356.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434423&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269458356.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434423&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269458356.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434423&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269458356.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Bear cub from Washington State 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434423/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, bear cub, Seattle, Washington, menagerie</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Fleet&amp;#39;s First Stop- Trinidad 23 Dec 1907</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434428/</link><description>Officers and men on liberty in Port of 
Spain, Trinidad, December 1907. The 
sailors seem intent on augmenting the 
shipboard menagerie by acquiring exotic 
tropical birds. One of the officers is 
carrying a Kodak box camera, which by 
1907 
was in general use.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:53:34 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434428/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434428&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269456814.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434428&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269456814.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434428&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269456814.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434428&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269456814.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434428&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269456814.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Fleet&amp;#39;s First Stop- Trinidad 23 Dec 1907</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434428/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Spain, Trinidad, tropical birds, Kodak box camera</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Transporting officers to Rotorua</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434437/</link><description>A number of Naval officers from the 
Atlantic Fleet are transported to Rotorua, 
New Zealand via horse and buggy; August 
1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:18:10 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434437/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434437&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269454690.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434437&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269454690.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434437&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269454690.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434437&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269454690.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434437&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269454690.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Transporting officers to Rotorua</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434437/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Rotorua, New Zealand</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Crossing the equator on the way to Rio 1907</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434442/</link><description>These sailors are going through a line 
crossing ceremony as they cross the 
equator en route to Rio de Janeiro, 
January 1908. They will soon be proud 
members of the Order of Neptune.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:01:53 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434442/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434442&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453713.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434442&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453713.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434442&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453713.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434442&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453713.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434442&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453713.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Crossing the equator on the way to Rio 1907</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434442/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Order of Neptune, line crossing, Equator, Rio de Janeiro</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Officers visit Governor General of Australia, 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434443/</link><description>American naval officers of the &amp;quot;Great 
White Fleet&amp;quot; are pictured here visiting 
the Governor General of Australia in 
August of 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:51:09 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434443/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434443&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453069.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434443&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453069.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434443&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453069.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434443&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453069.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434443&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269453069.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Officers visit Governor General of Australia, 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434443/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Australia, Governor, officers</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>USN Bluejackets parade in Sydney 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434452/</link><description>Sailors of the &amp;quot;Great White Fleet&amp;quot; are 
shown here on parade in Australia. 
Australian law forbid the landing of armed 
troops, but Admiral Charles Stillman Perry 
forbid his men to parade unarmed. They 
reached a compromise with the Americans 
parading with arms but not ammunition; 
August 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:25:28 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434452/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434452&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451528.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434452&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451528.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434452&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451528.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434452&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451528.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434452&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451528.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>USN Bluejackets parade in Sydney 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434452/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Sydney, Australia, Admiral Charles Stillman Perry</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>US Marines Parade in Australia 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434454/</link><description>U.S. Marines parade in Australia. A 
section of Pitt Street, one of the main 
thoroughfares in Sydney, was renamed 
American street for the occasion; August 
1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:19:10 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434454/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434454&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451150.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434454&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451150.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434454&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451150.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434454&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451150.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434454&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269451150.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>US Marines Parade in Australia 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434454/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Sydney, Australia, Marines, parade, American street</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>The Wallaby mascot of the USS Connecticut, presented by the citizens of Sydney in 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434455/</link><description>This wallaby was a generous gift from the 
people of Sydney, Australia and a fine 
addition to the already extensive 
menagerie of the &amp;quot;Great White Fleet;&amp;quot; 
August 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:13:38 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434455/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434455&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450818.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434455&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450818.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434455&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450818.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434455&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450818.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434455&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450818.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>The Wallaby mascot of the USS Connecticut, presented by the citizens of Sydney in 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434455/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Sydney, Australia, wallaby</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Shipboard Dancing, Sydney, Australia 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434456/</link><description>By the end of their stay in Australia, 
many of the men of the Atlantic Fleet were 
exhausted by the sheer relentlessness of 
the entertainment the Australians had 
provided for them. &amp;quot;We have at last 
escaped from the hospitalities of Sydney,&amp;quot; 
one sailor wrote upon their departure; 
August 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:11:04 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434456/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434456&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450664.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434456&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450664.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434456&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450664.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434456&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450664.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434456&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269450664.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Shipboard Dancing, Sydney, Australia 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434456/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Australia, hospitality, Sydney</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Parade in Melbourne, Australia on 29 August 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434458/</link><description>Bluejackets from the &amp;quot;Great White Fleet&amp;quot; 
are shown here on parade in Melbourne, 
Australia. The Melbourne reception 
committee tried to give the sailors as 
much free time as possible, but still put 
together a dauntingly comprehensive 
schedule of entertainment; 29 August 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:39:19 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434458/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434458&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448759.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434458&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448759.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434458&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448759.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434458&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448759.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434458&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448759.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Parade in Melbourne, Australia on 29 August 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434458/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Melbourne, Australia</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Australians make fires for U.S. officers near Melbourne, Australia, September 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434459/</link><description>Officers look on as men from Black Spur 
construct fires for their amusement. Black 
Spur is not far from Melbourne, Australia; 
September 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:28:17 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434459/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434459&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448097.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434459&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448097.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434459&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448097.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434459&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448097.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434459&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269448097.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Australians make fires for U.S. officers near Melbourne, Australia, September 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434459/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Black Spur, Melbourne, Australia</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Wood chopping contest at Black Spur</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434460/</link><description>As part of the festivities at Black Spur 
conducted on behalf of the nearby 
Melbourne, Australia, the officers enjoy a 
wood chopping contest; September 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:23:02 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434460/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434460&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269447782.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434460&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269447782.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434460&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269447782.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434460&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269447782.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434460&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269447782.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Wood chopping contest at Black Spur</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434460/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Black Spur, Melbourne, Australia</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Liberty party on the way to Tokyo 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434470/</link><description>American sailors from the Atlantic fleet 
make their way to Tokyo in October 1908. 
President Roosevelt was concerned about 
possible misbehavior of the sailors in 
Japan. The specially briefed group of 
first-class libertymen allowed on sure 
were informed that attending the 
entertainment on shore was a matter of 
military duty, and strict discipline was 
observed at all times.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:03:54 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434470/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269446634.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269446634.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269446634.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269446634.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434470&amp;size=128&amp;m=1269446634.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Liberty party on the way to Tokyo 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434470/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Tokyo, Japan, Roosevelt</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Japanese bluejacket showing his American friend the sights- 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434471/</link><description>Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry&amp;#39;s 
first step in preparing for the arrival in 
Japan was to write a long letter to the 
American citizen Henry Willard Denison, a 
legal advisor to the Japanese Foreign 
Office who had spent the last 34 years 
living in Japan. The letter, which Denison 
showed to the Japanese naval staff, 
explained, among other things, the 
character of the American men, their 
desire for sightseeing, and their need for 
guides; October 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:04 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434471/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434471&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268857864.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434471&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268857864.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434471&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268857864.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434471&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268857864.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434471&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268857864.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Japanese bluejacket showing his American friend the sights- 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434471/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry, Japan, Great White Fleet, Henry Willard Denison</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Japanese and American bluejackets</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434474/</link><description>During the festivities, a handful of 
Japanese bluejackets fraternize with their 
American counterparts. Due to concerns 
about offending their Japanese hosts, 
disorderly conduct among American sailors 
was particularly discouraged, and the 
threat of a court martial for undesirable 
behavior loomed over the proceedings; 
October 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:57:47 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434474/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434474&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268855867.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434474&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268855867.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434474&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268855867.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434474&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268855867.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434474&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268855867.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Japanese and American bluejackets</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434474/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Great White Fleet, Japan, bluejacket</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>RADM Sperry and sr officers of the Japanese Navy at a fete in Tokyo, 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434475/</link><description>Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry, 
shown here with several Japanese naval 
officers, took great care during every 
step of the Japanese visit. He was, in 
turn, impressed with the level of 
organization and spectacle that the 
Japanese were able to provide for the 
Americans and reported to President 
Roosevelt that the visit had been 
&amp;quot;profoundly successful [and] beneficent 
in effect&amp;quot;; October 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:10:03 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434475/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434475&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268853003.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434475&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268853003.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434475&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268853003.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434475&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268853003.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434475&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268853003.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>RADM Sperry and sr officers of the Japanese Navy at a fete in Tokyo, 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434475/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry, Japan, Great White Fleet</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>GWF in Japan 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434479/</link><description>On the evening of their arrival in 
Japan, 18 October 1908, the American 
libertymen were treated to an elaborate 
reception given by Baron Kohei Sufu, the 
governor of Kanagawa. As naval officers 
made their way through the crowds, 
shouts of banzai! were heard from the 
townspeople.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:08:28 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434479/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434479&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268852908.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434479&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268852908.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434479&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268852908.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434479&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268852908.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434479&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268852908.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>GWF in Japan 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434479/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Japan, Great White Fleet, Baron Kohei Sufu, Kanagawa</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>Refreshments in Shanghai- 1908</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434491/</link><description>Bluejackets from the &amp;quot;Great White Fleet&amp;quot; 
are shown here enjoying refreshments 
provided by their Chinese hosts; October 
1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:46:11 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434491/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434491&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851571.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434491&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851571.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434491&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851571.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434491&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851571.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434491&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851571.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>Refreshments in Shanghai- 1908</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434491/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Bluejackets, Great White Fleet, Chinese</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>100 YEARS AGO</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434492/</link><description>In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), this train was 
commissioned to transport men and officers 
of the &amp;quot;Great White Fleet&amp;quot; from Colombo to 
Kandy. Many of the bluejackets rode on the 
top of the train cars neccesitating that 
the train halt before each of tunnel it 
approached to let the sailors get back 
into the cars; December 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:44:47 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434492/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434492&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851487.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434492&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851487.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434492&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851487.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434492&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851487.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434492&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851487.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>100 YEARS AGO</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434492/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Ceylon, Sri Lanka, train, Great White Fleet, Colombo, Kandy</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item><item><title>From Columbo to Galle Face, Ceylon by rickshaw</title><link>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434495/</link><description>Officers are transported in rickshaws from 
Colombo to Galle Face, Ceylon (now Sri 
Lanka); December 1908.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:43:35 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434495/</guid><pictopia:provider>United States Naval Institute</pictopia:provider><photo:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434495&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851415.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434495&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851415.0</photo:thumbnail><pictopia:thumbnail href="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434495&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851415.0">//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434495&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851415.0</pictopia:thumbnail><media:thumbnail url="//pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=319&amp;ptp_photo_id=usni:2434495&amp;size=128&amp;m=1268851415.0"></media:thumbnail><media:title>From Columbo to Galle Face, Ceylon by rickshaw</media:title><pictopia:buylink>http://gallery.pictopia.com/usni/gallery/22372/photo/2434495/</pictopia:buylink><pictopia:keywords>Officer, rickshaw, Colombo, Galle Face, Ceylon, Sri Lanka</pictopia:keywords><category>Personnel</category><pictopia:category>Personnel</pictopia:category></item></channel></rss>
